It seems to usually be people with very weak secret questions/answers. Like "What kind of pet do you have?", which has only very few possible answers.
Since it appears to be mainly end user error, people should be glad there is a mechanism in the first place to recover accounts. It's almost as if I am seeing people claim it is just to darn difficult to read any one of the 20+ instructional threads on PGP Bitcoin Signatures or too lazy to Google it. ~BCX~ It's actually even easier than that. There are several trustworthy clients that allow you to sign messages easily, like Electrum or Multibit. |
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Why should vod unfairly get the monopoly on Peter Griffin boob-licking avatars?
Seriously though I don't think we should limit people to unique avatars. Users may use the same ones to indicate they're from a specific company (or crapcoin or whatever), and like mprep said free speech and all that shit.
Another additional argument: additional server work and/or space. Every time someone uploads an avatar, it has to be compared to all the other avatars in the forum pixel by pixel (or compared to their files hash or whatever else). If it's compared by hash then the hash has to be stored as well (although the size probably wouldn't be too big in this case). |
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The system we have now to correct things manually upon identification is plenty good when you consider it requires no further changes to maintain.
It's not a massive problem anyway.
Oh, trust me: sometimes it is. Though it depends on the timeframe, but overall there are lots of posts that I move everyday. Some seem like honest mistakes, while some did that intentionally. Back on topic, I think that even some rules can be enforced easier this way. For example a question: "Is this thread is about a website?" AND IF ANSWERED YES "Have you already made a thread about it?" would reduce on duplicate threads if the poster just didn't know the rules. I suppose topics aren't posted that often, so to ask a few questions to guide the post to the correct forum wouldn't be too bothersome. The trouble I find is that you can't get a decent mapping between answers and forums without asking lots of questions. Your proposal to ask questions to tackle the problem of duplicate threads could be useful, however once people are savvy to the mechanism they will simply click no, allowing them to post the topic. Also there may be legitimate cases to make a new topic. I like the idea of using the questions to tackle other problems, rather than the miscategorisation issue, which is a complex one. Topics are made quite often, just many of them get deleted or moved fast. Also, if you made a duplicate post with the mechanism in place, one could safely assume this intent was malicious. |
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The system we have now to correct things manually upon identification is plenty good when you consider it requires no further changes to maintain.
It's not a massive problem anyway.
Oh, trust me: sometimes it is. Though it depends on the timeframe, but overall there are lots of posts that I move everyday. Some seem like honest mistakes, while some did that intentionally. Back on topic, I think that even some rules can be enforced easier this way. For example a question: "Is this thread is about a website?" AND IF ANSWERED YES "Have you already made a thread about it?" would reduce on duplicate threads if the poster just didn't know the rules. |
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Not sure, but I think theymos mentioned that it will be included. Can't seem to find the exact post though.
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Heh i think it would be a good idea. At least it would get rid of all the default ones all the newbies seem to use. But hey, first things first we need to be actually able to upload an avatar  Don't worry, it was said they will be enabled on the new forum software. Back on topic, it really wouldn't stop people from using identical ones. As mentioned, changing one pixel already makes it unique. Besides, don't we pride on free speech thus have to allow people to be boring and identical to others if they want  ? |
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Mod note: Moved to Project development.
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Yes, if you pay in BTC. No, if you pay in the altcoin. For altcoin related trades use the Marketplace (Altcoins) section. Also, if you place the sig campaign there, make sure to make the registration to it off-site.
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I hate captcha, and sometimes I doubt it can be solved. eg.  tell me, is anyone able to slove this one? What is the worst captcha you ever saw? I would say It's ZGYGO but I wouldn't be surprised If It's incorrect  Where do you see an Z letter? I don't. I also thougt the first letter is Z and put in zemzio but it was wrong Or It is ZuYGO , ZuVGO or ZuMGO Doesn't really matter, by the time one would figure out what it means, the session would have expired and you'd need to refresh the page. |
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Here are the users who have visited the greatest number of distinct topics (in descending order). malevolent has visited about 50,000, while Phinnaeus Gage has visited about 15,000. (The forum keeps track of the last post you've read in every topic that you've visited, which allows me to figure this out.)
malevolent
BadBear
Foxpup
Maged
Immuzikation
Holliday
theymos
John (John K.)
runlinux
pedrog
Lethn
FreeMoney
Littleshop
herzmeister
twobitcoins
tysat
ineededausername
the joint
nomnomnom
Gabi
markm
01BTC10
gusti
juggalodarkclow
mprep
Rannasha
Stephen Gornick
camolist
jwzguy
SaltySpitoon
Phinnaeus Gage
Well, at least I'm on one of the top lists - the lurker list  . Even more than Phinn. . Back on topic, maybe this could be added to the Stats page. |
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I think that you only need to type the second word out. ReCaptcha only reads and checks the word that is harder to read. |
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Although selling accounts isn't plausible, but nor the mods, nor the admin can stop it. You ban the IP, they use a VPN, you ban the account, they'll get a new one. It's better when it's done openly, when people know the risk they might be dealing with a sold account, rather than secretly, when the user imagines the account belongs to the original member.
That makes sense. If you had some hypothetical method which made it possible for you to perfectly ban people who traded accounts , with no gaps , do you think it would be used ? Not focusing on the means and problems arising , if we could stop this account trading , should we or should we allow it ? Probably yes. There are some forum rules (account trading, multiple accounts) that allow something because it isn't possible to control it or police it enough to actually severely decrease the activity in such. |
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There's not that many of them to create a whole new subsection. Besides, it's a very specific service that could disappear as the forum develops.
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Theymos runs the forum, but he doesn't "own" it in legal terms. He even said that himself: Sirius founded the forum and still owns the domain name, so I would say that he owns it.
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Although selling accounts isn't plausible, but nor the mods, nor the admin can stop it. You ban the IP, they use a VPN, you ban the account, they'll get a new one. It's better when it's done openly, when people know the risk they might be dealing with a sold account, rather than secretly, when the user imagines the account belongs to the original member.
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I think moved it. Please report site announcements that are in the Services section when you see them.
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Spam is something that either is breaking the rules in stickies in various subforums or is overall low quality, off-topic or intended to advertise. Seems like in your case it should be OK.
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How long does a report take to be taken care of? do you know if it has been seen too? 1st report I made today and it's still on 0%.
You reported something as being a virus but there's no proof, just guesses, so I left it for now. I think the people who report near or in excess of 1000 posts will be the rare exception, aside from probably moderators.
Is there a daily average of posts reported available? That would be interesting to see. Does the mods' job mainly just consist of handling reports?
Last time I counted it was about 150 a day. That's counting everything, including foreign language boards and alt currencies. I leave a lot for the local mods to deal with, reports is probably 1/3 of what I do at most. Most are thread moves/spam that takes very little time. Regarding the virus, you could submit the download link to VirusTotal and have it checked by multiple antiviruses. |
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